Barack Obama and Bill Clinton unite for New York City fundraising blitz

Source: The Guardian

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton put on a display of unity in New York city on Monday evening amid ongoing speculation about renewed tensions between the two presidents.

The 44th and the 42nd occupant of the White House are side-by-side at three Manhattan fundraisers designed to stock Obama's warchest in anticpation of a tough election battle ahead. The events promise to net several million dollars, but at a possible cost of reviving discussions about their fraught relationship sparked by recent off-message comments by Clinton.

In a CNN interview last week, Clinton took a sharply divergent line on Obama's opponent, Mitt Romney. He remarked on Romney's "sterling" business record – a discordant note given that the Obama For America team was at that moment launching a sustained attack on Romney for his time at the private equity firm, Bain Capital.

In the same CNN interview, Clinton stressed that he was convinced Obama would win the November election by "five or six points", but those remarks were drowned out amid the cacophony of the 24-hours news cycle.